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As you begin to find things, slowly work your way to objectives involving the least sourced events in the family, with skimpiest place or date information. Sometimes events are not mentioned on the family group record, but it is important to guess they happened anyway. Try to obtain complete genealogical information for each family member. Stick with the same family until work on documenting all the events in their lives is mostly finished. | As you begin to find things, slowly work your way to objectives involving the least sourced events in the family, with skimpiest place or date information. Sometimes events are not mentioned on the family group record, but it is important to guess they happened anyway. Try to obtain complete genealogical information for each family member. Stick with the same family until work on documenting all the events in their lives is mostly finished. | ||
= '''Select the Easiest Research Objective''' = | |||
To help judge easy-to-document versus difficult-to-document events on a family, use the following four factors. The factors are listed in order from most important to least important. | |||
1. Completeness of the dates, places, and sources for each event. | |||
2. Availability of pertinent documents. | |||
3. More recent versus earlier events. | |||
4. Quality of available documents. | |||
For more details about selecting easier objectives see [[Guessing the Easiest to Research Person and Event]]. | |||
== '''Helpful Guessing Skills''' == | == '''Helpful Guessing Skills''' == | ||